Gardening is how I relax. It’s another form of creating and playing with colors.
OSCAR DE LA RENTAFashion is about dressing according to what’s fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.
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The essence of style is how you live your life
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It’s important to excite the imagination of a woman.
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Women think black is the most flattering color, but they’re wrong. Pink adds a cosmetic-like radiance and warmth. Black drains the skin of color; pink delights the eye.
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You don’t go to Buckingham Palace in a sweater.
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Never,ever confuse what happens on a runway with fashion. A runway is spectacle. It’s only fashion when a woman puts it on.
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When I went to see Mrs. Clinton and we talk about the inaugural dress I ask her what would you like to achieve with this particular dress? And she said to me what I would like is – that when I walk into the room and people will look at me and say wow you look great.
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A fragrance is like a signature, so that even after a woman leaves the room, her fragrance should reveal she’s been there.
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In fashion, the most important thing is to move on.
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The most important beauty is not that with which you were born, but the beauty of character which grows through a woman’s life and maybe never stops growing.
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I always design my own hats to complete my fashion thought….I like them slightly mad, like this huge black poppy. Right now I lift the bosom high on coats and dresses…I am using so many high curved belts.
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I have always felt my role as a designer is to do the very best I can for a woman to make her look her best. Fashion is only fashion once a woman puts it on.
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Nothing is contrived. At night, the clothes should pour like liquid over the body.
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My wife said I look like a Latin American dictator. I said, ‘That’s what I am’
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A woman makes an outfit her own with accessories.
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A woman can wear anything- she can make it right.
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